Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-28
THE MARKET PROPOSITION.

. THE MARKET PROPOSITION.
The proposition to establish market |
place on the north side of ! street, above |
Third street, ought to prevail. 1t is not |
true that the plan is to pay any one fanci- |
full prices, for the property is to be con-
demned by the power of eminent domain |
The value the city deems proper will be |
rendered, and if it is not accepted the |
matter goes into the realm of proof before
a Court, which may call jury to advise |
it. The value of the property to be taken,
therefore, will depend upon proofs taken,
each side making its showing. Under such
procedure there can be no fancifid prices
but simply honest values.
The market place is needed greatly. All
prosperous cities need room for the ex-
posure of produce, fSr the meeting Of pro-
ducer and buyer, and such place we do
not now have. To take the land suggested
will give an open area where vegetables,
fruit, ice, coal, wood, and hay can be
brought, unloaded and readily delivered.
1t will afford the needed room for properly
handling and shipping fruit-a business of
the highest Importance to Sacramento.
For want of room the trade is now much
Kindred, and as time is the essence of its
success, space needed should be provided
that time may be saved. 1t will put
market right at the doors of the depot,
where incomers will view our products,
and it will thus aid the immigration work.
But it will work the filling of the
slough, and as health proposition that
alone is worth twice or thrice the sum the
improvement will cost the people More
over, it will break up Chinatown, and to be
quit of that nuisance is worth thrice the sum
to be laid out. The Chinese herd together.
They will live in quarters. To ob,iterate
one half of the present Chinese quarter
and remove its unsightliness is to decree
the removal of the whole of Chinatown
that will be inevitable.
The improvement will bring into rate
paying new property section by reason Of
enhanced values, and thus taxation will
decline and the burdens of municipal gov
eminent be lightened and more evenly
distributed. 1t will aid and stimulate
trade, and thus augment local prosperity.
Originally the scheme was projected to
condemn the north side of ! street, from
Third to Fifth, with the single idea of
getting rid of the intolerable nuisance
maintained there and it was then deemed
full compensation for the outlay to accom-
plish that end. Now that it has been pro-
posed to fill the space and make the
vacated tract n market place, the plan
gains new interest and augments in the
force with which it presents ITSELF
We repeat, the expenditure of $4,000
for such purposes by a city of 10000 in
habitants is trihe in the light of the
positive benefits to accrue in the way of
abolition of n nuisance, conservation of
of public health, increased trade and what
should have been stated before, enlarged
industries. The railway company will, it
is settled, fill its lots as soon as the I-street
side of the work begins, and will speedily
occupy the land with enlarged works, de-
pots and storehouses. Around this quarter
will soon be located other manufacturing
industries, and within a comparatively
brief time the market place and its sur
roundings will be the busiest place in the
city.
The more the scheme is discussed the
more forcibly it presents itself. As it is
proposition to rid the city of long and
bitterly-complained of nuisance; to re-
move health menace land in case of the
approach of an epidemic one that would
practically condemn the whole city,; to
enhance trade; to furnish new and en-
larged fields of labor; to advertise the
city by exposure of our products to all
arriving tourists to add new values to the
assessment-roll and thus diminish the tax
rate; we cannot entertain any doubt about
its adoption.
The tax levy for it is light, and it is in
the nature of an investment that will
bring immediate return to every property
owner, and for the municipality it is
proposition in the direction Of progress to
lay the tax, because it means real economy
coupled with positive advancement.